Hi I have been using Nero Vision successfully to convert and burn avi files to DVD format. My question is this: When the files are too large to fit on one DVDR Nero asks me if I would like to automatically fit the project onto the one DVD. I click OK. Why does Nero only use part of the DVD capacity and not the whole space available? For example the last few DVD's I made were automatically scaled back to 3.24 GB instead of the full 4.38 available. I was wondering if I could get Nero to use the full space available so that there is less compression and possibly better picture quality? 1 GB is a lot of space to leave unused! Is there some way I can get Nero to automatically utilize the full capacity of the DVD? Thanks for your help. agarg
@agarg, I also use NVE and I will be watching this thread for answers as it also happens to me as well, I wondered about it but never queeried it.
Hi gwendolin, I dont like to answer my own question...I was playing around with Nero Vision and this is what I found. When you load your video files clik on "More" then click on "Video Options" You will get a dialog box with tabs. Click on "DVD-Video" tab. Here you can adjust the quality to Custom and then adjust the bit rate to the highest that you can go for the space you have. This is a trial and error step. For example Nero was reducing the bitrate automatically to 3882 kb/s and only using 3.24 GB of space. Now, using Custom I can adjust the bitrate as high as 4700 kb/s and use up 4.33 GB of space. As far as I know the higher the bitrate in video or sound relates to better quality...is that right? Then you can set these settings as default or change them for the individual projects. Hope this is the right way to do things. Thanks agarg
Thanks for that, I have checked it out but cannot comment however I will try that next time and see what transpires.
i'm having a problem converting avi files to dvd and then burning. Ive done it once with a menu and two titles and i successfully burned it onto a dvd but i can't do it anymore. when i tried i chose what i wanted and when it came to the encoding and burning page it gets "stuck" on the "creating menus and transcoding streams." it shows the elapsed time but doesn't show the time remaining.the "current progress" bar is full but da bottom "total progress" doesnt do anything.i left nero on for 2 hours and the total progress bar still didn't go up.can anyone help me??please thank you
